Entries Tagged as 'party planning committee'

RSV-f’ing-P. Comprenez-vous?

December 13th, 2009 · 154 Comments

“Our office manager was upset that people weren’t responding promptly enough to the Christmas party invitation,” says our submitter in San Diego.
In keeping with the holiday spirit of things, the office manager  apparently channeled that anger into the posting of this (uncredited) About.com excerpt in the office kitchen, for the edification of all. How that’s [...]

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Tags: etiquette · obnoxious definition · office · party planning committee · san diego

You gotta hand it to HR…

October 26th, 2009 · 134 Comments

With morale at many companies coasting towards all-time lows, those peppy human resources specialists keep coming up with new budget-conscious ways to keep us worker bees happily humming along. To wit: “Popcorn Thursday.” Sounds like a total blast, right?

Meanwhile, an anonymous post-it writer in Denver speaks up for how employees really feel about these “morale [...]

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Tags: a little patronizing · all-staff e-mail · office · party planning committee

thx for your honesty

November 27th, 2008 · 83 Comments

happy thxgiving, everyone!

related: it takes a “genius” to come up with a potluck theme like this one

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Tags: holiday spirit · office · party planning committee · san francisco

and a happy halloween to you, too

October 31st, 2008 · 92 Comments

spotted by lange from cambridge, mass. while campaigning for obama in new hampshire. says lange: “decided against bugging them with our political spiel. (we assumed they were obama supporters anyway.)”

meanwhile, corporate belt-tightening isn’t going over so well with the office grunts this halloween.  “this was the response to the environment/holiday committee’s lack of halloween candy [...]

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Tags: New Hampshire · holiday spirit · los angeles · office · oregon · party planning committee

It takes a “genius” to come up with a potluck theme like this one

May 28th, 2008 · 354 Comments

Dealing with the rantings of your crazy boss or overzealous receptionist is one thing, but what do you do when your office’s resident passive-aggressive note-leaver doesn’t even work there? Casey in San Diego (a.k.a. RunBarbara) says that’s the situation she’s found herself in at her job.
The offender, Sandra, “has met me a total of twice, [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · bathroom · battle of the sexes · blitzkrieg approach · california · clip art catastrophe · crazypants · dubious scientific claims · exclamation-point happy! · gloriously redundant · office cop · party planning committee · san diego · spelling and grammar police · thx · toilet · unnecessary "quotation marks" · vomit · you call that punctuation?

Actually, we just hate you

December 13th, 2007 · 99 Comments

“We really don’t hate the holidays,” says our anonymous foreign-policy elf in Washington, D.C., “just passive-aggressive coworkers.”

related: Perhaps a committee to assess the health of the committee?

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Tags: d.c. · e-mail · holiday spirit · money · office · party planning committee · spelling and grammar police

For your records

November 9th, 2007 · 293 Comments

I think what fascinates me most about this e-mail, from the head of the party planning committee — excuse me, “fun fund” — at an office in Toronto, is the subject line. Not only does the writer ignore the obvious “let them eat cake,” she vetoes the direct approach (“hey, fatty”) in favor of the [...]

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Tags: "helpful" advice · cake · canada · ellipses-crazed · etiquette · money · office · overzealous secretary · party planning committee · toronto

if you can afford $10 worth of flair…

August 28th, 2007 · 198 Comments

says “anony-scrooge”:
my office is ridiculous about cards and donations. the smallest of occasions warrants cards, money, balloons, flowers, a singing telegram, etc. last christmas was no exception. by mid-december, we had been asked for no less than $150 each in contributions for this and that.
the straw that broke the camel’s back was the sudden [...]

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Tags: e-mail · money · office · party planning committee